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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more ext

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. – Havelock Ellis

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